[00:21.88]Brother Ali is back in town
[00:23.88]Came a long way to make that sound
[00:26.68]Break through Earth from hallowed ground
[00:29.12]Played with my blood to wear this crown
[00:31.67]Brother Ali is back in town
[00:34.11]World on my shoulder  weigh me down
[00:36.73]Break through Earth from hallowed ground
[00:39.29]Played with my blood to wear this crown
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[00:42.07]Uh  fact about it  I'm a force of nature
[00:44.87]Leader of men  boss of my organization
[00:47.35]I ain't in to bein ostentatious
[00:49.34]I offered the pages that
[00:50.30]Caught a lot of y'all in the Matrix
[00:52.46]Soon as I caught a break  I was off to the races
[00:55.02]Invaded the remotest possible places
[00:57.46]Seen it first hand  yeah it's hard to explain it
[00:59.95]I've been around the world
[01:00.79]Left my heart on them stages
[01:02.57]They want your boy  all all on they faces
[01:05.07]Hollered out a roar  they holla in amazement
[01:07.50]I follow all the greatest  A-list  taste makers
[01:10.39]That shaped this and they're all innovators
[01:12.64]I'm so firmly grounded in the basics
[01:14.79]Yeah  dishonor  get pounded to the pavement
[01:17.10]Dealin with the voice of the nameless faceless
[01:19.47]Face it  your participation ain't gonna be painless
[01:22.60]I won't debate that I'm sort of a sadist
[01:25.15]I use most your faces to sharpen my blade with
[01:27.77]Combat takin place  not entertainment
[01:30.14]Lives been lost  it's a hostile arrangement
[01:32.89]Brother Ali is back in town
[01:35.20]Came a long way to make that sound
[01:37.19]Break through Earth from hallowed ground
[01:39.63]Played with my blood to wear this crown
[01:42.31]Brother Ali is back in town
[01:44.68]World on my shoulder  weigh me down
[01:47.55]Break through Earth from hallowed ground
[01:49.90]Played with my blood to wear this crown
[01:52.95]Uh  your eyes never spied where I've been
[01:56.00]Low parts where the heights of rhymin
[01:58.56]Back alleys where the dice is flying
[02:00.81]Darkness is trying  the lights are blinding
[02:03.49]Sheist environment  the nights are violent
[02:05.68]Red beam silent  the siren's crying
[02:07.99]Clean mighty tights or your life surviving
[02:10.54]Nights where the roaches or mice might slide in
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[02:14.04]The highest you can climb is that limelight
[02:16.15]And so downing on that mic meant fighting
[02:18.24]
[02:18.80]Braggin rights are all that you rhyme with
[02:20.86]Can't stand to see all your pride get sliced in
[02:23.36]When the spotlight hit  my shit  y'all just
[02:25.85]Bet I'm a stomp this motherf**kin party
[02:28.15]Till it's cold and lifeless
[02:29.95]Close your eyelids  behold the righteous
[02:32.14]It's cold as night gets
[02:33.95]Brother Ali is back in town
[02:35.76]Came a long way to make that sound
[02:38.00]Break through Earth from hallowed ground
[02:39.56]
[02:40.45]Played with my blood to wear this crown
[02:43.07]Brother Ali is back in town
[02:45.32]World on my shoulder  weigh me down
[02:47.50]
[02:48.01]Break through Earth from hallowed ground
[02:50.44]Played with my blood to wear this crown
[02:53.07]
[03:17.23]There was a standoff
[03:17.85]And there's like a Russian dude a old  black pimp dude
[03:20.54]Some gangsta black dude  some Armenian dude
[03:23.03]Like a motley crew  literally
[03:24.66]Like a weirdo but street  angry  grown ass men
[03:28.71]Against me and Dibbs and Art and the God Loves Ugly crew
[03:32.21]And it's like a line and I walk in between 'em
[03:34.47]And I just start going off
[03:36.09]Like Cause  Blood  like motherf**ker
[03:37.71]I'm a get on the phone and I'm a make everybody cry
[03:40.40]I'm just talkin crazy  I'm mad  this is my hometown
[03:42.52]I'm about to call the homies
[03:43.95]But you know like
[03:44.66]The old pimp dude had a piece or something
[03:46.45]Like a gun or something
[03:47.63]And it was about to jump off
[03:49.69]And then he goes like "oh  ain't you Brother Ali "
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[03:53.11]Brother Ali  you a bad motherf**ker man